Sunshine holiday

Even if you didn't go to a lecture at all you could still have a wonderful holiday in the sun, swimming in the warm water by day or night, fishing from the jetty or boats, spearfishing, trying your ungainly bulk at water skiing to everyone's amusement, rambling over the bushy hills, bending a bow, or whatever else took your fancy.

The talks, however, do give each Congress its peculiar orientation. You branch out in a tangent from them. One in the morning and one at night with an afternoon of sunshine in between and a night of films, dancing and parties afterwards makes a pretty full day. To fit everything in, sleeping seems to be the thing you toss out. You'll find it's quite surprising how little you need when you get stimulated.

Often the talks, and the discussion which inevitably follows from them, carry on most of the time. This is a fairly good index of how interesting the speaker has been. You don't just lie around, listen to him, and loaf off when it's all over. You seem to find yourself mulling over what's been talked about, dissecting it, till you've got things clearer. If this is something you haven't tried at Varsity during term time, you'll find that it's valuable not only for Congress, but for afterwards, too.